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Printer, scientist and diplomat · 1706–1790 · Exploration & Innovation
Ran a print shop, mapped the Gulf Stream, invented a stove and bifocals, and talked France into funding the American Revolution.
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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
attributed to Franklin
Franklin was the fifteenth child of a Boston soap boiler, apprenticed to his brother's printing house and ran away to Philadelphia at seventeen. He made money from the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack, then retired from business at forty-two to do science and public work. His electrical experiments earned the Copley Medal and gave English the words battery, conductor and charge; he charted the Gulf Stream for the Post Office, and refused to patent the Franklin stove or the lightning rod. He founded a library, a fire company, a hospital and a university. As minister to France he secured the alliance that decided the war, and he signed the peace that ended it.
You can put that to the Benjamin Franklin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Benjamin Franklin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1706–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Benjamin Franklin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Benjamin Franklin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1706–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Benjamin Franklin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Benjamin Franklin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1706–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Benjamin Franklin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Benjamin Franklin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1706–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Benjamin Franklin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Benjamin Franklin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1706–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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